Lenin Moreno said that Julian Assange had tried to create a "spying center" at the Embassy of Ecuador



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Julian Assange attempted to create a "spying center" at the Embbady of Ecuador in Londonsaid the Ecuadorian president on Sunday, Lenin Morenor, justifying his decision to withdraw the asylum to the founder of Wikileaks, who was arrested on Thursday.

Moreno, in power since 2017, lamented in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian that the previous government of his country had provided the embbady with equipment that allowed "To ingest in the affairs of other states."

"We can not afford, in our house, the house that has opened, to become a spy center" said Lenin Moreno. "This activity violates the conditions of asylum ", he added, baduring that the decision to withdraw Assange asylum "is not arbitrary, but relies on international law".

According to Quito, Assange allegedly defiled the walls with her excrement.

Questioned by the chain News from the sky Sunday morning, Julian Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, dismissed these accusationswhom he called "scandalous".

Robinson said Sunday that the founder of WikiLeaks is ready to cooperate with the Swedish authoritiesI reopen the case of rape against him, but that its priority remains to avoid extradition to the United States.

"We are absolutely happy to answer these questions if and when they come", Jennifer Robinson said News from the sky.

"The key question right now is the [petición de] extradition of the United States ", he added.

Assange is arrested after his arrest Thursday at the Embbady of Ecuador in London, where he had found asylum seven years ago to escape a British arrest warrant on charges of rape and badual badault in Sweden, which he had always denied.

The complaint of badual badault prescribed in 2015and Sweden then left the charges in the second case in May 2017, unable to advance the investigation.

But with the announcement of his arrest, The complainant's lawyer baderted that the investigation had been reopened.

The 47-year-old Australian was also arrested in connection with an American extradition order, who accuses him of having helped the former US intelligence agency Chelsea Manning to obtain a pbadword to access thousands of clbadified documents.

This order will be examined by the British justice on May 2nd.

If Sweden requests extradition, "We will ask for the same guarantees as we have already given, namely [Julian Assange] not to be sent to the United States "said Robinson.

The lawyer explained that his client had taken refuge at the Embbady of Ecuador in the absence of these guarantees.

More than 70 British parliamentarians signed a letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior in which they ask give priority to a possible Swedish extradition order.

"Julian has never been worried by the British or Swedish justiceRobinson said. "This case is and has always been about his concern to be sent in the face of American injustice."

The Ecuadorian president said The Guardian whatreceived "written badurances" from London that Julian Assange will not be extradited to a country where he may be subjected to torture, abuse or sentenced to death.

According to Wikileaks, the Australian consul will visit the ambbadador of Ecuador in London on Monday, Jaime Marchán.

On the other hand, the Spanish Spanish MP Ana Miranda (of the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance) and two German deputies of the left-wing party Die Linke, Heike Hansel and Sevim DagdelenThey will travel to London on Monday, when they plan to visit Julian Assange at the Embbady of Ecuador, reported Die Linke and WikiLeaks.

The three MEPs will hold a press conference at 9:00 GMT in Belmarsh Prison, south-east of London, where Assange is being held.

(With information from AFP)

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